Monday, 15 June 2015

Redundant Work

The free market hates redundant work when it is no longer necessary. For example, toilet cleaners are paid very little compared to clerks, which are paid less than the project managers, which are paid less than their directors, and so on... Example obviously involves other factors, but this repetitive nature of work is part of it.

I hate redundant work. Someday, future generations, assuming they are far more technologically advanced, will have automated all the shit we do everyday. For example, the European housewives of the middle ages could only dream of washing machines and dishwashers. The native inhabitants of Yuen Long in Hong Kong could only imagine vehicles carrying goods and people through the hills, or that people would one day hike for fun.
  • Commuting, transportation - Waste...of...life.... 
  • Typing - Have you ever typed so much your fingerjoints became cranky? Future form of torture.
  • Talking - Whatsapp Telegram v9999, now with Mind-Mind Interface! 
  • Driving - I like driving. Makes me feel useful while being transported.
  • Grocery Shopping - good exercise of choice, but becomes a chore.
  • Mind To Brain Interfacing - Future me probably wouldn't have to actually type this.
  • Showering - feels good, but how about not every, single, day?
  • Paperwork - Still heaps of it, only digitized. :(
  • Cleaning - already outsourced.
  • Knitting - I don't understand knitting, but I abhor its repetitive nature.
  • (....it's too repetitive to list everything....)
Since up to 90% of our lives are still this, we can only imagine what a world without these would be like. Some of us do these things so much we become sadistic/masochistic (can never figure out which one :|) and begin to enjoy them. 

Of course, we would still do such redundant work for leisure, but only to the point where it's fun.

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